Lewis v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This is a revocation-of-probation case in which the court is called upon to discern the intent of the trial court’s initial order placing appeEant John Alvin Lewis on probation. Lewis’s probation was revoked upon the State’s petition after it was determined by the trial court that Lewis had violated his conditions of probation. On May 27, 1998, the court of appeals reversed and dismissed Lewis’s judgment and commitment order after the court found that the trial court exceeded its authority in sentencing Lewis on his original charge to more than the time remaining on what…